Roald Dahl: Continually Strange
The perpetual favorite writer of my childhood, Roald Dahl remains probably my biggest overall creative influence. And though I hold no aspirations to being a Dahl expert or would-be biographer, I know a lot about his life and work. Still, even with your absolute favorites, there are still new discoveries to be made that you've yet to encounter.
Por ejemplo:
1 - I guess in the UK they're going to make an entire 52-episode TV series about the Dahl book The Enormous Crocodile. That is a shit load of episodes based on what I think is essentially a single picture book. At least they're coping the look of the show off nearly ubiquitous Dahl artist Quentin Blake, and I remember seeing some shorts based on the pairs work animated a few years ago that was at least pretty to watch.
2 - So Roald Dahl's granddaughter, who was the basis for the lead in The B.F.G. is now a foxy British supermodel.
But wait, it gets better. Aside from her longstanding and successful modeling career, Sophie Dahl is also married to a millionaire jazz musician (they apparently still have these in Europe?) named Jamie Cullum. The pair's combined wealth is something like £5 to 10 million. And so when Sophie made a public plea for fans of her late grandfather to donate up to £500,000 to help save the little hut where he wrote the majority of his stories, people united to tear her a new one:
There's a lot more in that link, including photos of the author, the hut, angry Tweets, models and some kind of crazy witchcraft lab.
Dahl would've been 95 earlier this month.
Por ejemplo:
1 - I guess in the UK they're going to make an entire 52-episode TV series about the Dahl book The Enormous Crocodile. That is a shit load of episodes based on what I think is essentially a single picture book. At least they're coping the look of the show off nearly ubiquitous Dahl artist Quentin Blake, and I remember seeing some shorts based on the pairs work animated a few years ago that was at least pretty to watch.
2 - So Roald Dahl's granddaughter, who was the basis for the lead in The B.F.G. is now a foxy British supermodel.
But wait, it gets better. Aside from her longstanding and successful modeling career, Sophie Dahl is also married to a millionaire jazz musician (they apparently still have these in Europe?) named Jamie Cullum. The pair's combined wealth is something like £5 to 10 million. And so when Sophie made a public plea for fans of her late grandfather to donate up to £500,000 to help save the little hut where he wrote the majority of his stories, people united to tear her a new one:
Actor and writer Nicholas Pegg wrote on Twitter: 'Top model (& Jamie Cullum's wife) Sophie Dahl wants us to raise £0.5 million to save her bestselling grandpa's shed. Am I missing something?'
He later posted: 'A preposterously wealthy family pleading for cash for its legacy? It sounds like a lost Dahl story!'
Journalist Matthew Sweet joined the chorus of criticism, saying: 'Have I got this wrong? The international model and TV star Sophie Dahl is asking US for money to restore a shed?'
There's a lot more in that link, including photos of the author, the hut, angry Tweets, models and some kind of crazy witchcraft lab.
Dahl would've been 95 earlier this month.
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